It being Shadow Economic Stats, for those who missed the antecedent." SGS is being referred to frequently in relation to their unemployment figures: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts My confusion about these figures relates to the denominator of the total workforce. For SGS, it doesn't seem to change, even when discouraged workers are added to the analysis. Thus the percentage unemployed seems to be exaggerated (as if it needs to be). I could be missing something. David Green